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Tower Install

If he bolts it to the house as he suggested it won't move. Your problem was because you tried to make it freestanding. My first installation was a piece of 3 inch black iron pipe in the ground about 18 inches with a very small amount of concrete. The soil was heavy red clay. That pipe was bolted to the house eve. Another piece of 2 inch black iron pipe was sleeved inside collars welded to the 3 inch. This allowed me to raise and lower the antenna. I had a Wilson Shooting Star about 32 feet to the boom and I was wide open to the winds for about 270 compass degrees. It lasted for years until I got a tower. Anything very long WILL move in the wind and eventually loosen in the soil unless you provide a second anchor point near the top.
To be honest......I got in a hurry. My eyes where bigger than my stomach. Once started, realized I needed/ wanted more. With that mind set I got what I asked for .....more problems. Realized I wanted to be at least 1 wave length above. So ended up with a little more...38'. I had limited resources/ materials. Everything is scrap mostly.

Wanted to pass on my bad judgments to keep others aware. Had to modify and improve my design. Have 28 years of perpetual motion in structural/ piping construction. There will always be some voodoo out there. I can always be used as a bad example.
 

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  • @ BJ radionut:
    EVAN/Crawdad :love: ...runna pile-up on 6m SSB(y) W4AXW in the air
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    One of the few times my tiny station gets heard on 6m!:D
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    anyone out here familiar with the Icom IC-7300 mods